Reynolds Dishes On Green Lantern And Deadpool Movies
Written by Wayne Hall on November 30, 2009 – 11:30 am -
Ryan Reynolds is grateful for comic books — two of the films the actor is working on are based on comics’ characters. So what does he think about them? He talked about both Green Lantern (from DC Comics) and Deadpool (from Marvel Comics) during an interview with MTV, according to the getthebigpicture website.
“I’ve known about Green Lantern my whole life, but I’ve never really followed it before. I fell in love with the character when I met with director Martin Campbell,” Reynolds said. “When I sat down with him, I really got what it is that this guy is all about.”
“When you have a guy like Martin Campbell, part of his charm is that he has balls of titanium, and the other part is that he’s slightly crazy, and you have to be to take on something with the scope of Green Lantern,” he said.
“He’s less of the director and more of a general. He just really knows strategies, he knows the intricacies, and his attention to detail! It’s infectious,” according to Reynolds. “I sat down with him, and I could not even believe what he was saying. When I went to the meeting, I was entirely cynical. I thought, ‘What the hell, I’ll see what they have to say,’ and I left the room with a completely different perspective.”
Then what about Deadpool? The actor says they are currently working on building the character from the X-Men Wolverine: Origins film.
“I’ve been in so many meetings lately about Deadpool and meeting all these writers. Everyone is always looking for that one line, ‘What is that character?’ and for me it’s kind of like, ‘There’s a guy, and he’s in a highly militarized comedic fame spiral.’ That’s not an easy thing to write — an entire screenplay, let alone a franchise,” he said.
“I had a blast playing Wade. Every line I had in that was stuff I thought he would say,” Reynolds admitted. “It wasn’t something that a writer said to me. It was fun to really create that character, including everything he spits out of his awful mouth.”
Green Lantern will soar into theaters on June 17, 2011, while the exact date for release of Deadpool in that same year has not been announced.
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Tags: DC Comics, Deadpool, Green Lantern, Martin Campbell, Marvel Comics, Ryan Reynolds
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